I am a nobleman in Spring and Autumn

Chapter 467 This is a Dimensionality Reduction Strike
The original army's catapults attacked first, and then the bed crossbow and powerful crossbow also joined the attack sequence, making the "Xinzheng" defenders think that the original army was about to attack the city.

Chu Jun and Zheng Jun thought there was nothing wrong with that, but the original army did not send troops to climb the city wall, but only used long-range weapons to keep attacking.

Does this attack method count as launching a siege?
Not every one of the 110 vehicles was put into the attack sequence. Fifty riprap trucks were mainly aimed at the east, and fifty riprap trucks were pulled onto the artificial mound; the remaining three sides were [-] to the north, [-] to the south, and [-] to the west. ; the remaining seventeen catapults served as reserves.

The distribution method depends on which direction has the most artificial soil piles.

The artificial soil mounds are divided into heights ranging from 28 meters to 35 meters. There are four in the east, two in the north, and one in the south and one in the west.

It's not that the original army didn't want to make more artificial mounds. The main reason is that there are Chu enemy troops outside the "Xinzheng" city, and the difficulty of making them is different in different directions.

The Yuan army has been trying to lure the enemy troops outside the "Xinzheng" city to leave the city wall, but the Zheng army dared not leave at all, and the Chu army learned to behave after several lessons.They have been staying near the city wall. While protecting the city wall, why not use the range advantage brought by the height of the city wall to counter the original army.

Standing tall and shooting far is basic common sense.

The appearance of artificial mounds can allow the original army to better grasp the movements in the city of "Xinzheng". It is also to increase the reachable range of catapults, bed crossbows and other long-range weapons.

"Your Majesty." Sima Rangju came to Zhiyao suddenly, and it seemed that something unexpected had happened.

At that time, Zhiyao was watching the catapult throwing stone bombs into the city of "Xinzheng".

Sima Rangju handed over an opened box, which contained the battle report from the territory of Chu, and said: "Si Kou entered Chu, swept Chenjiudi and Caijiudi, and encountered more than [-] Chu troops when crossing the Huai River."

When the original country refers to some geographical locations outside its own country, it usually refers to the name of the original vassal state.

The Kingdom of Chen was destroyed by the Kingdom of Chu, and later the Tian family reestablished the Kingdom of Chen. They no longer have the rule of the mainland, and they moved to the Korean Peninsula to start new development.

The State of Cai was supposed to perish. Later, due to the unsuitable situation, the State of Chu moved the whole country of Cai Jun to the vicinity of Shashui in the south of the State of Song. They are currently one of the puppet states of the State of Chu.

The Huai River was a natural barrier used by the Chen and Cai states to resist the Chu army. Now the water system almost divides the Chu state in the middle. The north is called the new Chu land, and the south is the old Chu land. The difference between Chu people.

To put it bluntly, the time of the same central governance of the Chu State existed successively. Not only the places were named, but also the people were divided into high and low.

Regarding this point, all vassal states except the original state have the same problem, and they have to artificially distinguish between new and old, and closeness and estrangement.

Zhiyao strictly forbids man-made separatism, and pays attention to the use of contributions to distinguish the noble from the humble. Those who have not made meritorious service will be ordinary people for as long as they stay in the original country.

This is of course part of Zhiyao's thinking of "taking history as a mirror".

Historically, the state of Qin continued to expand. There were two different groups of people from the new Qin and people from the old Qin. The people of the new Qin continued to contribute to the expansion of the state of Qin. How many crises and contradictions?
How fierce is the struggle between the new Qin people and the old Qin people?At one point, Ying Zheng almost lost his throne!As the support of the old Qin people, the Wang family took the opportunity to make great contributions, which can be regarded as preventing the old Qin people from completely disappearing on the stage of Qin's high-level officials.

The Zhi family is an ancient family, but the re-established Yuan country is very young.

The gap is only within a few years, and it can't catch up with the excessive distinction between old and new. Why bother to artificially create a distinction between old and new, and then plant the seeds of disaster for the future.

Zhiyao had finished reading the battle report, and said, "Is the Zhao family one of the upstarts in Chu?"

Among Qu, Jing, and Zhao, is the Zhao family the latest to appear?They evolved from the heirs of King Chu Zhao, and the Zhao family didn't have a long history.If King Chu Hui hadn't died, Patriarch Zhao and King Chu Hui could be regarded as the same generation.

Sima Rangju replied: "Zhaogu is the uncle of Lord Chu. He did not follow north this time, but stayed in the middle of the country to monitor Fengjun."

Zhiyao's understanding of Zhaogu is limited to a little information.

This Zhaogu is now the Zuo Yin of the Chu State, equivalent to the third in command of the Chu State, and can be regarded as a high-ranking and powerful person.

Last year, more than [-] defeated soldiers from Chu State fled back to Chu State.

This year, only about [-] Chu troops went north again.

Then, it is a bit reasonable that Chu's mainland was invaded, and it was able to gather an army of about [-] to resist.

Zhiyao asked: "How is this person's reputation in Chu?"

Sima Rangju immediately guessed Zhiyao's thoughts, and said: "Although the Qu and Jing families have a long history, the Zhao family is the most respected in the contemporary era, and I have never seen Zhao Gu's ability. He is different from Gongsun Ning and rejects the establishment of a monarch. , so many people from the public family will follow."

Zhiyao nodded, and said: "Disturbing the hinterland of the Chu state is just to make it go through wars. If Zhaogu can be replaced, it will bring chaos to the state."

In terms of territory, Chu State is really a bit big, and it is difficult for it to be fully occupied by a single military operation.

In recent years, the state of Chu has been hit hard, and the internal turmoil is also a struggle between the center and the localities. In short, it seems that it is not chaotic enough.

Sima Rangju knew what to do, but he should still ask for instructions, and asked, "If Si Kou pretends to be defeated, retreat to Zhengdi, or find another way to attack Chudi?"

For a long time, Chu State has been defeated by Ueyuan State.

If Zhaogu can lead an army to defeat the original army, even if it is [-] to [-], I believe that Zhaogu can gain a lot of fame.

At present, Chu Junzhong and a large number of Chu state ministers are trapped in the "Xinzheng" city, which means that it is difficult for them to exercise influence on the Chu state itself.

Zhaogu's prestige has soared because of his victory over the original army. On the contrary, Chu Junzhong has lost his prestige after defeating and losing his prestige. Will Zhaogu have the ambition to replace Chu Junzhong?

"Return to Zhengdi, just take a rest, move to the west of Zhengdi, and make them all under my rule." Zhiyao said.

The eastern part of Zheng State will not be moved for the time being, because there is a Song army there.

Zhi Xuwu has only one legion under his command. Even if he can take the southern part of Zheng State, the Chu army will definitely go north in the future. While the troops are not strong enough to control the southern part of Zheng State, they will have to fight the Chu army again and again.

Then, the Yuan Kingdom is now going to take advantage of the siege of "Xinzheng" to start conquering other regions of the Zheng Kingdom, and then bring them under the rule.

Sima Rangju was about to leave, but when he sensed Zhiyao's intentions, he thought for a while and asked, "Your Majesty, have you used troops in 'Xinzheng' for a long time?"

Zhiyao was unable to give an answer to this question for the time being.

If you attack the city regardless of the cost, the casualties caused by the "Xinzheng" city defense fortifications will definitely be great, and a hard attack is of course a bad idea.

Zhiyao plans to grind slowly, and is already planning to dig a large number of ditches around "Xinzheng", and even build a city wall, trying to use less troops to trap "Xinzheng", and have more troops to use in other areas. Raid the city above.

"It takes four or five years, and I will be the one to gain. If it takes four or five years, there will only be one city left in the land of Zheng Guo." Zhiyao said.

Sima Rangju was stunned.

In fact, it is the gap in vision, or Zhiyao has too many examples in military thinking to learn from, playing a dimensionality reduction strike.

"Your Majesty's ability to use soldiers is unrivaled in this world." Sima Rangju suddenly felt that his art of war could be improved to a perfect level.

Zhiyao didn't blush and her heart didn't beat, she just smiled reservedly.

For the time being, no one has put forward similar ideas, and no one has used the same tricks. As an "ancestor", Zhiyao is not "original".

Who is not convinced?Travel to an era earlier than Zhiyao to do it.

It will take some time to convey the new order to Ji Seo-go, and I hope So-gu's ability is not so strong, so that So-gu wins before Ji Seo-go gets the order.

Zhiyao, who decided to besiege Xinzheng for a long time without wasting his life, took the next step to order a large number of prisoners of war to be escorted, and the former army would supervise the work.

Of course, the long-range weapons of the original army were still attacking "Xinzheng". Every day at least 700 yuan of boulders were smashed into the city of "Xinzheng". The number of coverages gradually decreases.

The prisoners of war were escorted one after another, and it seemed that most of them belonged to Chu people.They didn't appear to be docile at first, and it was only after killing a few batches that they curbed their resistance.

No one asked Zhiyao, for example, why he didn't arrest the nearby Zheng people to participate in the labor.

Although it has entered the Warring States Period, the armies of the princes will not deliberately avoid Li Shu to attack, and there is only one army that will specifically target Li Shu, that is, the Qin Army.

The Qin army was indeed the first army to kill non-combatants in the Ji Zhou era, and it was a planned massacre by high-level officials.

Therefore, the title of barbarians for the Qin people is really not planted; the country is considered to be a country of barbarians, but it is actually made by the high-level officials of Qin.

Zhiyao did not arrest ordinary Zheng people. Firstly, he had lived in the modern age for more than 40 years, and his thinking was more or less assimilated; secondly, the practical reason was that the number of prisoners of war was already sufficient, so why let ordinary Zheng people deepen their hatred of their original country.

The original army didn't leave after a wave of rampage. What they had to do was to occupy the land and implement the rule. The Zheng people would soon become the people of the original country. Not surprisingly, the descendants would also be part of the original country.

Therefore, the Zhi family did not deliberately bully the people of Wei, Chidi, Qi, and Lu before, and they will not push the people of Zheng outside.

On the contrary, what the original country should do is to let Zheng Guoren experience the treatment of being a native of the original country, what new changes will occur after becoming a native of the original country, and what changes will the new changes have on their lives.

The besieged high-level officials of the Zheng State were able to learn about some external situations one after another. Waiting for the original army to besiege "Xinzheng" to tighten the encirclement, it gradually became difficult to receive news from the outside until it completely lost contact with the outside world.

Therefore, Zheng Guo's high-level officials only knew that the situation was getting worse, but they didn't know that the original army was already attacking more cities and villages, or that they were rushing to occupy and rule.

Here, Zhiyao taught the world another lesson. It is not necessary to completely destroy a country to begin to transform the country's people. The country's high-level leaders have lost command of the local area, but they have already begun to occupy and implement rule.

Because of poor information, the high-ranking officials of Zheng State and Chu State who were trapped in the city of "Xinzheng" mistakenly believed that the original army was under military pressure from other regions, so they did not attack "Xinzheng" for a long time.

Whether there is a new Chu army going north to increase the pressure on the original army, or the pressure comes from the Song army, the top leaders of Chu and Zheng can only guess.

The high-level leaders of the two countries discussed and spread the news that the reinforcements were about to arrive to save the morale that was getting lower and lower, and decided to launch a new round of counterattacks against the original army that surrounded them.

The coalition has a new move?Of course Zhiyao wanted to take the opportunity to make a plan, but it was a pity that the other party was too cautious and did not dare to let the army leave the city too far, and the peripheral enemy troops did not dare to enter the original army's encirclement of "Xinzheng".

"Reinforcements? Zhaogu stopped at the Huai River, and the Song army returned to 'Changge'. Where did you get the reinforcements?" Of course Zhiyao would not inform the high-level officials of Zheng and Chu.

The Song army was not so timid. They once crossed the "Tushi" and marched towards "Xinzheng", and a big battle broke out with the original army in "Zhitian".

In this battle, the [-] Song Army and the [-] Yuan Army fought in the plains, and the two sides fought for [-] days to decide the outcome.

The top leaders of the Song State repeatedly tried to get in touch with the allies in "Xinzheng". After many attempts failed, the Song Army suffered nearly [-] casualties. It didn't help that the army went all the way to the city of "Xinzheng", they took the initiative to retreat.

The battle that broke out at "Zhitian" really made the senior officials of the Yuan country look at the Song country with new eyes.

As a native of the Jin state, it must be said that the Jin state never had high demands on the Song state, otherwise it would not have given up on the closer Song state to choose to support the farther Wu state.

"In the battle of 'Zhitian', our army suffered more than [-] casualties, and the Song army suffered about [-] casualties. The Song army was defeated but not defeated, and still has the strength to fight. This alone is far superior to the Chu army and Zheng army."

Obviously, the Yuan army misjudged the Song army's casualties.

However, misjudgment of enemy casualties is normal. It not only happened in the cold weapon era, but the same situation is still common in the information age.

Sima Rangju said: "If the Song Dynasty does not mobilize again, it is difficult for the Song Army to take action this year?"

For the coalition forces, the most embarrassing thing for them is that the main force is under siege. If they cannot cooperate with the reinforcements coming from the outside to force the reinforcements to withdraw from the siege, the number of reinforcements arriving by the coalition forces will be too small, and getting too close to "Xinzheng" will only increase the number of trapped troops.

Cheng Shuo said: "I once led the army to retreat, but the Song army did not directly attack Xinzheng."

The first battle in "Zhitian" was commanded by Cheng Shuo, and Zhikai, as the prince, also participated in the battle. In terms of the result, of course he won, but the real intention was to lose.

Zhiyao looked at Zhikai and asked, "Would you like to go to 'Qufu'?"

Everyone couldn't help guessing: Is this the Yue Kingdom's action?
(End of this chapter)